Google gets Barcodey

I was just checking up on Google charts this morning to see what was new. They now support QR codes, another barcode format that you might need in your outputs at some point.

similar to datamatrix barcodes, its used to store large amounts of data. Kudos to someone that can decipher the contents of the code [...]

Open Data Everywhere: Share Your Stories

While this blog usually sticks to narrow topics around OWB (and OWB 11.2 gives us a lot to talk about), it’s worth raising our heads once in a while to look at larger, longer-term DI trends and factors. One that will matter more and more is the widespread availability of various government and scientific data [...]

Too Much Information Makes People Something Something

When we started this team, three years ago, most people we talked to hadn’t heard of Facebook or Twitter and associated MySpace, assuming they’d heard of it, with something kids do.
Some people knew LinkedIn and that often helped get the wheels turning about social and how it could benefit work.
It was a lot like 1997 [...]

Do You Search or Organize?

Photo by mcfarlandmo on Flickr used under Creative Commons

On a web conference today, I caught a glimpse of someone’s inbox.
Protip: Close your email and IM if you’re presenting something. Unless of course, you want me to see your email folders, including the ones where you store “house” email.
But I digress. The person’s inbox had probably 40 folders, [...]

Oracle Integrates E-Business Suite with Google Search Appliance

Peter Heller, Senior Director, Oracle Applications Product Marketing, discusses with Cliff the new relationship between Oracle and Google, why companies want search in their enterprise applications and why this is so exciting for Oracle application customers.

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How Do I Start Learning Oracle ADF and JDeveloper 11g

Last week I finally added google tracking on a per entry to my blog, and turns out that one of the most popular entries I did is “How do I Start Learning JDeveloper and ADF” – the only problem is that was created back in the 10.1.3 days.
So here is an update with links to [...]

Oracle CRM Gadgets for Google Desktop

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How Do I Start Learning Oracle ADF and JDeveloper

Last week I finally added google tracking on a per entry to my blog, and turns out that one of the most popular entries I did is “How do I Start Learning JDeveloper and ADF” – the only problem is that was created back in the 10.1.3 days.
So here is an update with links to [...]

Apply Caution to Interwebs, Rinse, Repeat

Photo by chokola from Flickr used under Creative Commons

Last week’s kerfuffle about foursquare and how it exposes you to would-be burglars was hilarious to me.
More accurately, it’s Twitter that poses the risk, which isn’t a new problem. Foursquare encourages people to socialize their game-playing by adding friends from Facebook, Twitter and GMail. As with any [...]

Now Subscribe By Email

I setup a Google Feedburner for this blog so that you can now subscribe for updates by email (as well as RSS) feeds. As much as RSS is designed to make keeping track of updates – it seems that email is still the best way for most people.
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